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2nd Industrial Revolution
Social & Economic Efforts of Industrial Revolution
Collective Action
Congress of Vienna
-isms of 19th Century
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His laboratory was in New Jersey. Here he produced incandescent light bulbs, fuses, sockets, and switches.
Who is Thomas Edison?
100
Also known as the middle class, they grew substantially with industrialization and were also considered the "new elite."
What is the bourgeoisie?
100
An ideology that advocated to combat the economic inequalities that Industrialization had brought. It opposed the laissez-faire inspired practices.
What is socialism?
100
The French leader whose defeat and exile resulted in The Congress of Vienna. The Congress of Vienna was a coalition of nations that formed to settle the future of Europe.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
100
Ludwig van Beethoven's Third Symphony, Eroica, is one example.
What is romanticism?
200
Banks that usually worked in collaboration with governments and were owned by many shareholders. They were first pioneered in Belgium and were a factor in the economic growth in Belgium, Germany, and France.
What are corporate banks?
200
The only country in which the population declined during the 19th century. This was a result of a potato famine that began in the summer of 1845.
What is Ireland?
200
Also known as ideal communities, these first appeared around the 1830s and were built based on cooperation , not competition. Here no one was rich or poor, but basic needs were met for all.
What is utopian socialism?
200
It was initiated by the Tsar Alexander I of Russia and bound the rulers of Russia, Prussia, and Austria to conduct their government according to Christian principles.
What is the Holy Alliance?
200
An example is France's Charles X attempt to restore the old regime as completely as possible. His government gave the Church more control of education.
What is conservatism?
300
This canal was constructed over a ten year period (1859-1869) and facilitated the travel of ships between the world s seas and oceans. It lowered the costs of trade and made communication much easier.
What is the Suez Canal? (The Panama Canal was also a ten year building process - 1904-1914.)
300
This term originally applied to the poorest urban dwellers in Ancient Rome, but in the 19th century was used to identify urban factory workers. They lived around the factories where they worked and, because of they were unskilled workers, they were dependent on the factory owners for their livelihood.
Who are proletariats?
300
A radical German socialist who believed that revolution, not reform, was the only solution to the misery and unfairness that resulted from industrialization.
Who was Karl Marx?
300
The French representative at the Congress of Vienna. His skill in diplomacy resulted in France remaining as one of the major European powers.
Who was Charles Talleyrand?
300
One example is Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott who wrote Ivanhoe in 1819.
What is romanticism?
400
The most ambitious Russian railroad line. It spanned the distance from Moscow east to the Pacific Ocean.
What is the Trans-Siberian Railroad?
400
A British economist who, in 1798, became the first critic to note that the world's population was increasing faster than the food supplies needed to sustain it.
Who was Thomas Malthus?
400
Skilled craftsmen in the Midlands and northern England who in 1812 physically attacked the machines that they believed threatened their livelihoods. The were led by General Ned Ludd and had a lot of support from the locals.
Who are Luddites?
400
A country that merged with the Austrian Netherlands to create a stronger state along the northern French border. It became known as the new Kingdom of the Netherlands.
What is the Dutch Republic?
400
Napoleon forwarded his agenda in France based on this. He appealed to the growing sense of French unity based on common institutions, traditions, language, and customs.
What is Nationalism?
500
It was the most industrialized country in Asia by 1900. This laid the foundation for it becoming a world power in the 20th century.
What is Japan?
500
The separation of women from the world outside the home and the creation of an insulated world of home, servants, children, and management of the family's social life.
What is the "cult of domesticity?"
500
Written by Karl Marx in 1848, it stated that workers would revolt against their poor working conditions and create a new world where social classes would disappear because ownership of private property would be banned.
What is The Communist Manifesto?
500
It was the agreement that periodic congresses were to be called to discuss outstanding problems. It initially included the Quadruple Alliance- Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Great Britain. They later invited France to join them.
What is the Concert of Europe?
500
Tsar Alexander's forming of the Holy Alliance is an example. It was a defense of the established order, which included both monarchs and religious officials.
What is conservatism?